Category: Audience Awards ARFF Barcelona 2023

Original Film Title: 九霄之音

Director’s Name: Weiwei Guo

Writer’s Name: Weiwei Guo

Producer: Zhuolun LI

Country of Origin: China

Country of Filming: China

Language: Chinese

Runtime: 28 minutes 50 seconds

Film Description:

During Shanghai COVID-19’s outbreak, a ride-hailing driver’s mobile phone was stolen. Due to policy reasons, he could not go home or enter other rooms. In the process of carrying passengers, he met Jiuxiao, who didn’t want to be isolated. The two witnessed the changes on the eve of Shanghai’s closure

Original Film Title: RED FAUST

Director’s Name: Zsolt Pozsgai

Writer’s Name: Zsolt Pozsgai

Producer: Zsolt Pozsgai

Country of Origin: Hungary

Country of Filming: Hungary

Language: Hungarian

Runtime: 1 hour 12 minutes

Film Description:

The Bishop and the Actor. In the same prison cell in 1944. The Actor’s task: to guide the Bishop through his tragic life until his death. Time travel. Will you take the role of Bishop Faust? Wouldn’t it be better to give up now? A real life, an extraordinary fate. The passionate, constant struggle between Priest and Actor, which is in all of us.

Original Film Title: Millstone

Director’s Name: Nasser Aldhaheri

Writer’s Name: Nasser Aldhaheri

Producer: Nasser Aldhaheri

Country of Origin: United Arab Emirates

Country of Filming: United Arab Emirates

Language: Arabic

Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes

Film Description:

The movie “The Millstone” and its slogan: “Al-Ain ‘The Eye’… is the first to see dreams” is a movie about the late His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the work lasted two years, and it tells aspects of his life since he took over the affairs of the city of Al-Ain as a deputy and then representative of the ruler of Abu Dhabi in 1946, when he was twenty-eight years old, and how he developed it in all economic, agricultural, educational and health fields, where Al-Ain during this period was the Millstone of Zayed’s great and distant dream of establishing a strong emirate, rebirth and developed, where he took the power of Abu Dhabi in 1966, and speeded up the stages in order to build a modern emirate, integrated and developed city, and made a bigger dream again, and the millstone included his great dream of establishing a strong, independent and prestigious state in the future, and that was in 1971, and he continued to work for his homeland, his people, the Arabs, Muslims and all humanity until his death in 2004, His name in history in letters of light.

Original Film Title: Unknown Entry Event

Director’s Name: Roman Villevoye

Country of Origin: Netherlands

Country of Filming: Netherlands

Runtime: 5 minutes 59 seconds

Film Description:

Uknown Enrty Event is a fashion film for designer Maarten van Mulken it’s about a woman finding a unknown entry event in her logbook and sets out to join her friends to express themselves and their freedom one last time.

Original Film Title: Érase una vez en Canarias

Director’s Name: Armando Ravelo

Writer’s Name: Armando Ravelo

Producer: Armando Ravelo

Country of Origin: Spain

Country of Filming: Spain

Language: French, Spanish, Wolof

Runtime: 1 hour 50 minutes 7 seconds

Film Description:

Nola, a girl of Senegalese origin, arrives in the Canary Islands in a canoe. Then begins an epic through the most defining corners of the Canary Islands in search of a Canarian father whom he never knew.

Original Film Title: Το Δείπνο του Βοσκού

Director’s Name: Yiannis Stravolaimos

Writer’s Name: Yiannis Stravolaimos

Producer: Konstantinos Gourgiotis

Country of Origin: Greece

Country of Filming: Greece

Language: Modern Greek (1453-)

Runtime: 2 hours 3 minutes

Film Description:

This is the true story of a kind shepherd who had dinner with Jesus himself…

Original Film Title: チャロの囀り

Director’s Name: Nobb Sueyoshi

Writer’s Name: Nobb Sueyoshi

Producer: Nobb Sueyoshi

Country of Origin: Japan

Country of Filming: Japan

Language: Japanese

Runtime: 1 hour 55 minutes

Film Description:

An encounter between people who do not have a common language.
A man who has lost his memory and language.
A man who lives with strong convictions even in the midst of discrimination.
A woman who sways between social disparities.
Focusing on these two people, we will draw people who live in various disparities such as occupational discrimination, school caste, and the gap between rich and poor.

Original Film Title: Мати Апостолів

Director’s Name: Zaza Buadze

Writer’s Name: Zaza Buadze, Ratha Makeenkova,

Producer: Dmytro Ovechkin

Country of Origin: Ukraine

Country of Filming: Ukraine

Language: Russian, Ukrainian

Runtime: 2 hours

Film Description:

In 2014, Sofia’s peaceful life was invaded by the war, when she received a news informing her that the humanitarian plane that her son was flying was shot down over the occupied territory, where there is war.

After receiving an unsatisfactory response from the military regarding her son’s life, she packs a small suitcase and travels to the occupied territory, to find her son.

Sofia understands the danger, however is determined to find her son. While traveling by bus, at the border, she gets saved from the militants by a local resident – Fedir.